Citizenship Test Answers for Montana
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Montana.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Montana
Helena
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Montana now
- Steve Daines
- Tim Sheehy
You only need to give one of these names.
Montana has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Montana's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 2 of Montana's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan K. Zinke |
| 2 | Troy Downing |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Montana now
Greg Gianforte
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Montana
Helena is Montana's capital, a former gold camp built along a gulch called Last Chance, while Billings is the larger city. Montana became the 41st state in 1889, one of four admitted that year as the northern plains filled in. It has 2 congressional districts and 4 electoral votes — and that first number is recent: the state had a single at-large seat from 1993 until the 2020 census gave it a second, so a voter here now has a district representative rather than one shared statewide. That is a concrete illustration of the apportionment question, since the House total stays at 435 and seats move between states rather than multiplying.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.